An interannual Antarctic sea-ice-ocean mode

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Oceanography: Physical: Ice Mechanics And Air/Sea/Ice Exchange Processes, Oceanography: General: Arctic And Antarctic Oceanography, Oceanography: General: Climate And Interannual Variability, Oceanography: General: Numerical Modeling

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By means of a global coupled sea-ice-ocean model we propose an oscillating mechanism in the Antarctic region with the same frequency as that associated with the Antarctic Circumpolar Wave (ACW) [White and Peterson, 1996]. Since our model is forced from the atmosphere with climatological monthly data with an annual repeat cycle, our oscillation suggests an internal mode of the sea-ice-ocean system rather than one which is dictated by global links through the atmosphere. This mode is robust for a wide range of parameterisation and forcing of Southern Ocean sea-ice, except for the case where higher rates of new-ice production and thus Antarctic Bottom-Water (AABW) formation are enforced. The present results imply that the sea-ice-ocean system itself may produce regional oscillations at a 4-year period in climatic conditions of relatively weak rates of AABW formation, which may contribute to regionally sustaining the ACW pattern.

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